Doctor, Lawyer...: The Best Engineers We're Not Competing To Hire Yet
summary
Claim: hiring only CS degrees misses engineers who actually build tools people use — Jim Weirich created rake and RubyGems without a CS degree, creators of Django and CouchDB without CS degrees are cited as examples, and computational biochemists and oceanographers are shown applying scientific debugging and modelling to improve performance. Evidence: diversity correlates with higher revenue and better problem solving; experiments find teams of “averages” outperform ones steered by a single expert. Notes on sourcing: mentions over a hundred boot camps producing junior-ready candidates.
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- 0:00Start
- 7:04Call Center Ops, 6 years Degree in Psychology
- 8:44Biochemist, 12 years PhD in Computational
- 10:28Police Officer, 8 years Degree in Japanese
- 15:32Lawyer, 7 years Law degree
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